Saturday, July 13, 2013

The American-born jihadist and treasonist has surfaced again, calling for jihad waging in Syria:

American jihadist Adam Yahiye Gadahn appears in a new al Qaeda video urging Syrian rebels to reject Western help and turn their insurgency into a global jihad, like the one in Iraq against the U.S. occupation.

The Oregon-born 34-year-old speaks in Arabic, with English subtitles, in the hourlong video that was released by al Qaeda’s multimedia arm, as-Sahab, on Tuesday.

Friday, July 12, 2013

WASH POST: ... he had no shortage of applause lines for an audience of charter-school faithful. The schools, he said, “are fundamentally about freedom, and freedom is what America is all about.” His parents, as most of the audience knew, fled Cuba before he was born. “Like I said in one of my songs, ‘Freedom is what we fight for, freedom is what we die for.’”

“My mom struggled,” he said, so he could get a good education — though, as he told reporters later, that journey involved hopscotching among a couple dozen schools. “I don’t want any mom in America to have to lie about where she lives so her kids can attend a better school,” he said.

On a recent Sunday at the sprawling Marché aux Puces de St. Ouen, France’s largest and most famous flea market, crystal chandeliers glinted in a rare patch of Parisian sun.“It used to be elbow to elbow here,” said Hamidou Debo, the owner of this shoe stall in the market. An ornate Napoleon III-era clock perched on a marble mantelpiece, and sales signs peeked from vintage clothing, vinyl LPs and other curios that have long drawn throngs of shoppers here, jostling for a bargain.

But something seemed amiss on this afternoon, as it has almost every weekend for more than a year. As with so much else now bedeviling France, the economy is to blame. French consumers simply are not spending the way they used to, and that is an impediment not only for the merchants of the Marché aux Puces, but also for the country’s ability to emerge from recession. “It used to be elbow to elbow here,” said Hamidou Debo, a shoe vendor who sat quietly in his outdoor stall as a handful of people browsed through silver-hued sandals and black leather high-tops before shuffling away without buying. “Now the crowds are around half what they used to be.”

For Mr. Debo and 2,500 other merchants in the 17-acre market on the northern edge of Paris, an economic slowdown has gripped business, and there is no telling when things might turn around. Last year, he said, he regularly made 300 to 400 euros, or $390 to $520, in sales by lunchtime. Now he barely makes 100 euros. “It’s the crisis,” Mr. Debo said. “People are no longer spending. They are worried about what the future will bring.”Europe’s long-running economic troubles have been, for the most part, confined to the feeble countries of Europe: Greece, Spain, Portugal and Italy. But more and more they are coming home to roost in France, raising questions about whether one of the Continent’s biggest economies may become the next sick man of Europe.

By many measures, France is already moored in malaise. Unemployment is at its highest point since the current record-keeping system began in 1996 — 10.8 percent — and job creation has been on a downward trajectory for more than a year. These problems, coupled with tax increases and government spending cuts intended to keep the deficit and rising debt under control, mean that France is now struggling to exit a shallow recession, its second in four years. Even if the recession does end this quarter, the economy is expected to remain stagnant at best, contracting by 0.1 percent this year, according to the French statistics agency Insee.

FRANCE AND EUROPE NEED TO DO A FEW SIMPLE THINGS TO AVOID CATASTROPHE:

Fugitive document-leaker Edward Snowden met with human rights activists and lawyers at Sheremetyevo Airport on Friday, and told them he would apply for political asylum in Russia, where he has been stranded since June 23. Human Rights Watch activist Tatyana Lokshina, who was in the meeting, said Snowden would accept a demand from Russian President Vladmir Putin that he refrain from releasing harmful information about the United States while on Russian soil.

AS SOON AS THIS STORY BROKE, I ASSERTED THE NSA LEAK WAS A COVER-STORY AND A RUSE SO THAT SNOWDEN COULD SEEK AND ATTAIN POLITICAL ASYLUM.

NOW, IT APPEARS HE WILL GET IT - IN A COUNTRY WITH MORE TYRANNY AND LESS LIBERTY THAN THE ONE HE FLED - SUPPOSEDLY OVER GOVERNMENT INTRUSIONS ON OUR LIBERTY AND PRIVACY.

IT DOESN'T PASS THE SMELL TEST.

I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED TO LEARN HE WAS A RUSSIAN AGENT BEFORE HE GOT THE BOOZ ALLEN JOB.

AND I BET THAT OUTIN HAS SEVERAL MORE IN PLACE AT SEVERAL AGENCIES AND DEPARTMENTS. EVEN THE WHITE HOUSE.

The soldier assaulted in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood on Tuesday stepped into the lion’s den of anti-establishment ultra-Orthodoxy: a street dominated by the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect.

I'm not sure if anti-establishment is the right thing to call them, since the sect goes hand in glove with the anti-Israel establishment.

While politicians, army officials and others, many from the ultra-Orthodox community, have come out against the attack, residents of the neighborhood voiced little condemnation on Wednesday.

The rabbit’s warren of alleys surrounding the scene of the crime on Nahum Ish Gamzo street feature walls plastered with pashkvils — printed public notices — denouncing participation in national elections and graffiti berating ultra-Orthodox Jews who enlist in the IDF.

Spray-painted Palestinian flags and statements like “hardakim [a slur for "lightweight" ultra-Orthodox] out” and “hardak, if you go this far, you erred” present themselves on the masonry. The Hebrew and Arabic on the street sign for Ish Gamzo Street were blackened out, leaving an only partly legible English name.

Most of the residents of the immediate neighborhood were unwilling to discuss Tuesday’s incident. Some flat-out denied anything had happened. Dov, an elderly man who reluctantly gave his first name, said Tuesday’s attack was the first of its kind, and that it was a minor incident perpetrated by a small number of extreme individuals and blown out of proportion by the media.

While he doesn’t agree with the mandatory draft, he noted that his father and brother had served in the military. “Once it’s forced, it becomes another thing entirely,” he said.

One teen, a bashful 17-year-old who identified himself merely as Yitzhak, said the neighborhood where the soldier was attacked is a stronghold of the extreme anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect and identified the soldier’s attackers as members of the group. He offered rare condemnation of the attack, calling it “not good.”

Yitzhak said that while the mandatory draft of the ultra-Orthodox was not necessarily a good thing, there was no call for maltreating someone for wearing the uniform.

When asked whether he would enlist should he receive a draft order from the IDF in the coming year, he said: “We’ll see what happens” and declared that he would consult his rabbi.

While speaking with Yitzhak, another Haredi teen approached him and warned in Yiddish against speaking to a reporter. Another teen warned in English that “my principal is going to come out and give everyone a punishment” for talking to a reporter.

Another teen standing outside the yeshiva on Ish Gamzo Street, who declined to give his name, remarked that the soldier “got what was coming to him.” His companion, 20-year-old Akiva, who wore the blue-and-gold pinstripe garment of the Neturei Karta, explained that “that’s what needs to be done.”

Akiva said that the residents of Ish Gamzo Street didn’t attack the soldier, they merely berated him. Only after the police entered the neighborhood did things get hairy, he said, justifying the assault of a police officer with stones.

“To shout, sure,” he said, condoning the invective of the attackers. “To assault, I don’t know.”

His bottom line, however, was simple: “This is not the place for soldiers in uniform.”

“Everyone who returns from the IDF comes back a goy [a gentile],” he said.

So stupid it's not even funny. But it demonstrates the bizarre vacuum they live in, where every Jew who's not Haredi is only a "goy".

In the second such attack in two days, on Thursday evening an unidentified, uniformed haredi IDF soldier was assaulted in the capital by fellow haredim opposed to mandatory ultra-Orthodox army service.

According to Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld, at around 6:30 p.m., while the soldier was walking alone on Shmuel Hanavi St., the assailants drove up and began cursing him and throwing objects at him without provocation.

“The man took shelter in a nearby building and police units arrived shortly thereafter to protect him and secure the scene,” said Rosenfeld. “He was uninjured and has since filed a complaint.”

Rosenfeld said no arrests have been made yet, but that police are actively searching for the vehicle in question.

I hope they catch the culprits in this case too. There should have been more arrests made in last Tuesday's attack to boot.

Haredim driving in a van in a Jerusalem street allegedly tossed various objects at a haredi IDF soldier passing by on Tuesday. The soldier sustained no injuries as a result of the attack.

The men in the van allegedly also cursed at the soldier, police reported.

When attacked, the soldier ran into a nearby building and contacted police, which soon arrived at the scene and escorted him to a Jerusalem police station, where he filed a complaint.

Police are currently trying to locate the van and the assailants, based on the soldier's description.

Talking to Ynet, the soldier described the incident: "I went out of the post office and started walking to my parents' house, when a van pulled over and I felt bottles thrown at me, as well as everything in the car, including snacks. They started shouting and cursing."

The soldier, who serves in the Ofer Base near Jerusalem, said the men kept cursing him: "I was afraid they'll get off and attack me violently, so I called the police."

He did the right thing to alert them, and they're going to have to increase patrols in those parts of the city.

Update: Yeshiva World says that a leader of Neturei Karta blatantly praised the attack on the first soldier. Absolutely sick.

The Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 deadly Fort Hood shooting rampage told some potential jurors Wednesday that he supports the Taliban and the strict Islamic Sharia law.

Maj. Nidal Hasan, who is serving as his own attorney in his court-martial, asked questions of individual Army officers on the second day of jury selection. On Tuesday after the first group of 20 potential jurors arrived, he declined to ask questions. [...]

In answering Hasan's questions, several potential jurors said they had negative views of Muslims, the Quran or Sharia law. But they said they could put aside those views and only consider evidence in the case.

Hasan told one colonel that Abdulhakim Muhammad, sentenced to life in prison for the June 2009 fatal shooting of a soldier outside a Little Rock, Ark., military recruiting station, was his "brother and friend." He asked if that would affect her ability to serve, and she said no.

The military judge, Col. Tara Osborn, told Hasan several times to rephrase his questions and avoid referring to himself as the shooter, saying he is acting as an attorney during jury selection and will be held to the same standards. She reminded him that he was not testifying.

He's not bound to be respectful of the judge, nor the jury. That he's now serving as his own lawyer is ludicrous and obscene, but obviously a tactic of his that partly stems from his sick belief system.

He also pressed a female major about why she held similarly unfavorable views of Sharia Law, or Islamic religious law. “I’m no expert in Sharia Law, but it certainly seems like something I would not want to live under,” she told him. “I think it would pretty much suck.”

Hasan asked another potential juror if he would hold against him the fact that he believed that the Taliban, who imposed a strict version of Sharia Law on Afghanistan, “were imperfect Muslims trying to establish a perfect religion of almighty Allah.”

The questioning also revealed the difficulty of finding high ranking Army officers who have not formed an opinion about the shooting. One colonel told the judge that while he would attempt to be impartial, “(Hasan) is sitting here in a wheelchair because of wounds he received on that specific day.”

Interesting. But if Hasan himself called the Taliban "imperfect", that's odd. Is that some other kind of strategy he's using?

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Egypt's prosecutor has ordered the arrest of the leaders of ousted president Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, charging them with inciting violence that saw 55 of their members shot dead. [...]

The leaders were charged with inciting the violence which began before dawn on Monday, when the Brotherhood says its followers were fired on while peacefully praying.

The Brotherhood says police and troops "massacred" 42 of their supporters, with women and children among the dead.

But the army says terrorists provoked the shooting by attacking its troops.

In pure jihadist fashion, to be sure. It's practically the way of the jihadists to put women and children into danger yet blame everyone but themselves. For that, the MB members they want imprisoned should be punished.

Tuesday, July 09, 2013

This week, North Carolina's state senate came up with a bill for opposing sharia. Inexplicably, the lawmakers also saw fit to attach a bill against abortion to it as well. What was the point of that? Thanks to their idiocy, a leftist columnist named Tina Dupuy saw an opening of opportunism to attack Christianity and claim that it's no better than Islam.

It's possible that the lawmakers who thought to add anti-abortion to the bill did that under the assumption that Muslims would soften their stance, since many of them are theoretically against abortion, unless it's a kaffir's child in question. But they're thinking wrong. And it won't please many conservatives either, since it can embarrass them.

The lawmakers who brought anti-abortion stipulations into the whole debate would do well to drop it and just focus on the problems with Islam itself.

Mr. Obama is committed to ending America’s military involvement in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, and Obama administration officials have been negotiating with Afghan officials about leaving a small “residual force” behind. But his relationship with Mr. Karzai has been slowly unraveling, and reached a new low after an effort last month by the United States to begin peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar.

SO... BECAUSE KARZAI WON'T TALK TO THE TALIBAN - HIS MORTAL ENEMY - PEOPLE WHO WANT HIM OVERTHROWN AND WHO WANT TO INFLICT SHARIA ON ALL OF AFGHANISTAN - OBAMA WILL WITHDRAW AND HAND THE COUNTRY TO THE TALIBAN!?!?!

THIS SHOULD SURPRISE NOBODY.

A CASUAL LOOK AT THE MAP OF 2013 VERSUS THE MAP OF 2008 CLEARLY SHOWS ISLAMISTS LIKE THE TALIBAN HAVE MADE CONSISTENT GAINS UNDER OBAMA.

THE RESULT IS SO ORDERLY IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE IT'S NOT BY DESIGN.

FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES AND JUDGING BY THE OBVIOUS RESULTS, OBAMA IS NOT THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT, BUT THE FIRST ISLAMIST PRESIDENT.

In 1939, Adolf Hitler told officials that people "considered incurable" should be "granted a mercy killing". The programme ended officially in 1941, but continued covertly until 1945. At first, personnel killed people by starvation and lethal injection. They later used gas chambers at killing centres in Germany and Austria.

The programme, also known as Action T4, is considered a precursor to the Holocaust, during which millions of Jews were killed.

This EUGENICS horror is "merely" abortion on a national scale: morally it's no different than abortion-on-demand which is when a mother "euthanizes" her own baby for her own benefit. Abortion is the USA has killed 10 times more people than this horrific NAZI euthanasia program - and most of the babies "euthanized" might have been healthy contributors to humanity.

Still think there is no connection?

Then let me remind you that Planned Parenthood was founded as a eugenics group.

Under Obama and his comrades the USA has moved several steps closer to nation in which euthanasia of the elderly and infirm will be practiced on a scale even more massive than what the NAZIS envisioned.

And it will take more than a change of administrations and a change in the law to stop it; it will take a cultural shift: we need to renew the traditionally religious view of life which is the foundational principle of the USA: that all humans are created equal and endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights - including the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And the RIGHT TO LIFE is first.

Criticizing Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the center-left and secular Republican Peoples Party (CHP), Erdoğan declared, “Kılıçdaroğlu is striving every bit he can to raise himself from the level of a black person to the level of a white man.” The Turkish word—Zenci—Erdoğan used is often used in a derogatory way.

Sick, sick, sick. No sane politician in a black country in South Africa should have anything to do with Erdogan, and neither should anybody else.

Sunday, July 07, 2013

Via Tundra Tabloids, a doctor named al-Kurdi tells the real story behind the death of one of the most repulsive modern day jihadists. And I think that puts to rest any conspiracy claims that Israel was behind his death, even though Arafat would be deserving of any punishment he'd get.